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Written By Sandy Douglass, designer of the Thistle Published in Rudder Magazine in the 1950s Table Contents The Start of the Thistle Class Association Was Auspicious Although Unusual In the autumn of 1945, as soon as it was evident that the war would end, the prospective Thistle owners, those who had placed orders for boats … Read more
Thistle Midwinters West 2020 Mission Bay Yacht Club, January 29-February 1, 2020 by Mike Poltorak, #3410 This year’s Thistle Mid Winters West (MWW) turned out to be a fantastic regatta. I got motivated early to try to get all of the local competitive boats on the racecourse either with their owner or as a charter. … Read more
By Scott Meyer, #3811 Table Contents Fleet tune-up days: our approach and thoughts on how to get everyone in your fleet up to speed. Last year we had 3 new boats in our fleet. They were new to the Thistle Class, and as anyone in a new class has found out, there are some quirks … Read more
Thistling Community This question and resulting answers was a conversation Initiated by John Gilmour #3141 on the TCA list serve. Table Contents Q: How do you avoid a death roll in heavy air? At the wonderful ACC Regatta this past weekend, we experienced a death roll in the third race. We had rounded the windward … Read more
This article originally appeared in the 2019 June/July issue of the Bagpipe. The Coach TCA participants at this year’s Midwinters East Championships were treated to a great session with Mike and Delia Ingham as they shared their routines for using the compass as they compete on their Thistle. I took these notes to share with … Read more
First-time Thistle owner? Get your first year of TCA membership free. Get your first year of Thistle Class membership for free! If you acquire your first Thistle and aren’t currently a member, we’d like to pay for this year’s Thistle Class Association membership for you. Details If you aren’t currently a member of Thistle Class … Read more
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